Concordat of 1801

The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that was signed on 15 July 1801 in Paris, France. Under the concordat, Napoleon could select bishops and supervise church finances, in return for restoring the rights of the Catholic church in France; the Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution had effectively "nationalized" the Church. The concordat led to reconciliation between the French government and the Catholic church, and it would win over the support of religious conservatives for Napoleon's government.